ABA President William H. Neukom will deliver the keynote address at Law Center commencement ceremonies at 2 p.m. on Friday, May 9, at Hofheinz Pavilion.  Click here for more information, including directions to the event.

The University of Houston has named Raymond T. Nimmer to become the eighth permanent dean of the University of Houston Law Center.  In announcing the appointment, UH Provost Donald Foss noted how Dean Nimmer “is an outstanding scholar with a sterling international reputation” who has improved public perception of the Law Center during his two-year tenure as interim dean.  He added that Dean Nimmer’s appointment is subject to approval by the UH System Board of Regents.  Click here to read the UH news release announcing the appointment of Dean Nimmer.  

The faculty and staff of the University of Houston Law Center extend their sincere sympathy to the family and colleagues of Professor Roy M. Mersky of the University of Texas School of Law, who passed away this week.  “He was more than a friend – he was a larger-than-life legend in legal academia who made the study of law into both an art and science,” said Law Center Dean Ray Nimmer.  Click here to learn more about Prof. Mersky

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Where can UHLC alumni – even the newest ones – learn the ropes about entering the job market for law professors? Answer: at a two-hour workshop on Saturday, May 10, the day after Law Center commencement ceremonies. Law Center Professors Aaron Bruhl and Barbara Evans will outline entrance criteria and the timing and protocols that contribute to a successful search for a law faculty position. The session begins at 10 a.m. in Room 109 BLB.

Prominent professors from the fields of environmental law and economics will descend on the Law Center later this month for the annual meeting of the Center for Progressive Reform, a nonprofit research and educational organization that advises policymakers on important environment, health, and safety issues.  Host for the CPR event: the Center for Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law under the direction of Victor B. Flatt, the A.L. O’Quinn Chair in Environmental Law at the Law Center.  Flatt is a member scholar of CPR, and notes that Houston Mayor Bill White plans to address the group and meet with faculty and sponsors of EENR Center, the newest center of excellence at the Law Center. 

Crimes that once required pistols and masks can now be committed with a single computer keystroke – and criminal law has strained to keep pace with present-day perpetrators.  To help guide their students through the bits and bytes of the Information Age, law professors now have a new resource: The Criminal Law of Intellectual Property and Information authored by Alumnae Law Center Professor Geraldine Szott Moohr.  Published by Thomson West, the casebook treats federal criminal laws that punish unauthorized use of information and trade secrets, copyright infringement, identity theft, and computer crimes, among others.  “This area of the law is developing very quickly, perhaps too quickly, to protect valuable information products.  My  goal was to provide an accurate and comprehensive picture of where we stand today – and where emerging laws might take us in the future,” she says.  When the time comes for a new edition, Moohr will be on familiar territory: earlier this year, she completed work on the sixth edition of Criminal Law, a casebook she co-authored with Joseph Cook, Linda Malone, and Paul Marcus.